Archive for June, 2009

Are You Ready for War With Demonized Iran?

How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina or any other country, get from the U.S. media? How many Americans and American journalists even know who is in political office in other countries besides England, France and Germany? Who can name the political leaders of Switzerland, Holland, Brazil, Japan or even China?

Yet, many know of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. The reason is obvious. He is daily demonized in the U.S. media.

Tiller, Roeder, Richert, and Luther

Recently, there has been a blogosphere brouhaha over questions pertaining to the murder of late-term abortionist scoundrel George Tiller. Our executive editor Scott P. Richert has made compelling arguments against Tiller’s murder at his Catholicism GuideSite on About.com.

The Way We Are, No. 9

With affirmative action and bailouts, the U.S. government has almost succeeded in severing the link between performance and reward.

Miss Affirmative Action, 2009

What are the grounds for rejecting Sonia Sotomayor?

No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has the intellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court. By her own admission, Sotomayor is an “affirmative action baby.”

High Words, Low Realities

“Among some Muslims,” Obama declared in Cairo, “there is a disturbing tendency to measure one’s own faith by the rejection of another’s. The richness of religious diversity must be upheld … Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.” This came at the end of a week in which the Israeli Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that threatens imprisonment for anyone who dares to deny that Israel is a Jewish state.

What Is History? Part 36

It’s not to our credit to think that we began today and it’s not to our glory to think we end today. . . . You stick to your blood, son; there’s a fierceness in blood that can bind you up with a long community of life. —Stark Young

Warning to Travelers Who Book Online

The Computer Age has changed the way people plan trips. Once upon a not-so-distant time, we called our travel agent to book flights and arrange cars and hotels. Now we are more likely to use an online booking service like Travelocity, Orbitz, or Venere. I strongly recommend against this for several reasons . . .

Fear Rules

The power of irrational fear in the United States is extraordinary. It ranks up there with the Israel lobby, the military-security complex and the financial gangsters. Indeed, fear might be the most powerful force in America.

The Rewards of Hubris

So here, as if on cue, it being a new day and all, came the Obama administration Monday to announce new arrangements for the way the country does business.

The new big idea: Tell all those banks how much they’re going to be allowed to pay executives; let them know the gravy train leaves the track here and now; Washington has their number.

Your Future as a Terrorist

The rulers perceive, quite rightly, the real danger to their power: Americans who think thoughts that can undermine the moral legitimacy and unthinking obedience that sustain their prestige, wealth, and power.